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Nietzsche, Politics & Modernity David Owen PHILO SOP HY& SOCI AL CRIT ICI SM Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/nietzschepoliticOOOOowen NIETZSCHE, POLITICS AND MODERNITY PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL CRITICISM Series Editor: David M. Rasmussen, Boston College This series will present an interdisciplinary range of theory and critique emphasising the interrelation of continental and Anglo-American scholar¬ ship as it affects contemporary discourses. Books in the series are aimed at an international audience, focusing on contemporary debates in philosophy and ethics, politics and social theory, feminism, law, critical theory, postmodernism and hermeneutics. NIETZSCHE, POLITICS AND MODERNITY A Critique of Liberal Reason ( David Owen BATA LIBRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO SAGE Publications London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi 5 C *133 ©David Owen 1995 First published 1995 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash -1 New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 8039 7766 2 ISBN 0 8039 7767 0 (pbk) Library of Congress catalog record available Typeset by Type Study, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Printed in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Ltd, Broughton Gifford, Melksham, Wiltshire To Sam for her courage and curiosity The question which stirs us as we think beyond the grave of our own generation is not the well-being human beings will enjoy in the future but what kind of people they will be. . . . We do not want to breed well-being in people, but rather those characteristics which we think of as constituting the human greatness and nobility of our nature. Max Weber . . . even if the typical character types of liberal democracies are bland, calculating, petty, and unheroic, the prevalence of such people may be a reasonable price to pay for political freedom. Richard Rorty
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